Phone rang at 6:55 AM

[Beth76]

DH's alarm goes off at 7am, so we were both jolted awake. I look at the caller ID and it's the lady who schedules charity pick-ups. At 7 AM!!!! So not happy about that. Who on earth thinks it's OK to call people at 7am?

 

[twinklebug]

Wouldn't it be nice to have their home phone #s and call them say... 10:30 pm?

 

[RadioNate]

the same people who think it's ok to call at 11pm

 

[beattyfamily]

Wow, that's unreal!

I can relate. We got a fax machine phone call (telemarketers) 3 times the other night at 3:30AM!!! And caller ID just says out of area and it's a fax so there isn't much we can do! I wishe there were a way to stop them.

I don't like when anyone calls before 8:00a and after 10:00p and if they do, my heart skips a beat thinking something's wrong.

 

[AllyandJack]

The same people who think it's OK to call the NH State Police to try and locate you when they don't remember your phone number.

This actually happened to me....Sunday night at 8pm....cop comes knocking at the door to tell us some Police Department in MA wants us to call them regarding DH's brother.

I was NOT a happy person.

 

[jacksonsmom]

The same person who calls at 9:45pm to ask if you can babysit tomorrow because they have been trying 'all evening' and haven't found anyone else!

Needless to say they get a big fat NO!!!!!!!

Personally I don't call before 9:00 AM or after 9:00 PM unless it is an emergency.

 

[Goofyzgurl]

I'm a 9-9 person. Don't call before 9am and don't call me after 9pm, unless it's family and omg, they just call any time. DH's mom used to call us at 6 in the AM! "What are you guys doing?" uummm sleeping.....

 

[ziggystardust]

The same people who think it's OK to call the NH State Police to try and locate you when they don't remember your phone number.

This actually happened to me....Sunday night at 8pm....cop comes knocking at the door to tell us some Police Department in MA wants us to call them regarding DH's brother.

I was NOT a happy person.

That must have been nerve racking

 

[Jennifer S]

What did you say to her? I got one on Sunday morning at 8:30 from the credit card company. I went off and she said we just have a question about your account. OK it wasn't telemarketing but I was still mad. Weekends to sleep in are precious.

6:55 - I would have had some choice words.

 

[Beth76]

Wouldn't it be nice to have their home phone #s and call them say... 10:30 pm?

I do. The caller ID is under her name, so I'm guessing it's her home phone number. I'm very mad, but she's an old lady, I would never call her. She still should know better though. I follow the 9 to 9 rule too.

 

[Beth76]

What did you say to her?

I didn't answer the phone. I'm not sure I would have said anything "appropriate", so I declined to answer.

 

[lulugirl]

That's just rude. I will not answer the phone before 9am.

 

[LoveWDW]

When the phone rings too early or late it is scary, but we feel we have to answer. There have been family emergencies that happen. And the one time that the phone rang at 1:30 am from the sheriff- our son had not stopped "completely" at a stop sign and the deputy stopped to warn him and found that his license had expired. So we had to drive a half hour to pick him up. I was lucky that I repeated what the dispatcher was telling me so my husband could hear, because I wasn't completely awake, and by the time I hung up the phone I couldn't remember the directions she had given me. This taught me that if someone wakes me up I need to write down everything that is said.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Some program here on campus called my dorm room at 7:55 yesterday morning. No not early, but still 20 minutes before anyone's alarm was going off, and we had been up rather late the night before. Best yet, the phone call was pretty much just to tell me to check my email Because you know, I'm not online all day anyway.
When my stepdad used to work in residence life at a college near home we'd get blasted out of bed the first few weeks of every school year, every night, by the moron who couldn't remember to call the beeper and cell phone (in bold print in their info sheets btw) instead of the home phone. Usually happened between midnight and 4 am. I generally FLEW out of bed.
And don't get me started on the 2 am phone calls we got when my dad's company had business in Singapore. They didn't understand the 12 hour time difference

 

[RUDisney]

Gosh, you guys couldn't be in my DH's family! They call at all hours of the morning. Anything after 5:00 a.m. is fair game. It doesn't make a difference to us since we're used to it and typically up sometime around then anyway to put the early news on while we doze.

The calls I don't like are the ones after 9:00 p.m. We're early to bed early to rise, so if you're gonna call, please do it early in the morning and not at night.

 

[KEH]

The same people who call at dinner time and say "I've called now because I knew you'd be in because you eat at this time." Er, yes, and guess what I was doing - eating and now it's getting cold. Thank goodness for answering machines.

 

[Talking Hands]

I regularly get calls starting at about 6 am from sub locators looking for a subs for the day. Anyone other than them I would kill! I have them call my cell so they don't wake the rest of the family.

 

[teacherforhi]

When I go to bed, I set my cell phone on 'talk' mode. When someone calls, it actually says "Call from _______". If it doesn't know the name of the person, it says the number. I don't answer unless it says a name and it it's before 7 am, it had better be another teacher telling me it's a snow day!

 

[lbgraves]

The same person who calls at 9:45pm to ask if you can babysit tomorrow because they have been trying 'all evening' and haven't found anyone else!

Needless to say they get a big fat NO!!!!!!!

Personally I don't call before 9:00 AM or after 9:00 PM unless it is an emergency.

Those are the hours that telemarketers & collectors have to follow. I learned that by working collections. Whenever I get a call from someone outside of that time I ask them if they know where they are calling. They usually operate with a dialer system so they just work the account that pops up on their computer when it dials the number for them. Usually they will look & see that it made a mistake & appologize profusely.

 

[Cindy B]

I substitute teach.. so anything that early is fair game for me.

The one that got me mad was the phone ringing after 10 pm on Saturday night.

It was Earthlink! We had an issue with our DSL and they called at 10 pm! I ripped into that woman.. beginning with "Are you aware that it is after 10 pm on a Saturday night?"